Surely you can see, Mr Juncker, that it’s time for the EU to reform?

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You might have thought that the European Union would at least consider reforming itself. Given that so many of the problems which it finds infuriating – Brexit, the Italian election debacle, the rebellions in the Eastern bloc over migration, the rise of antagonistic populist parties – all come down to the same complaint, that the EU Commission is seizing too much power, there seems a clear remedy. Why on earth, then, are they not even prepared to countenance the obvious option? If the peoples of the EU member states are expressing a common and widespread frustration over what used to be called, rather quaintly, the “democratic deficit”, which is to say the loss of national self-determination,...